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Charlie Angus Set To Propose Canadian MP3 Player Levy
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| Music industry sources say Canadian Member
| of Parliament Charlie Angus, the NDP's
| digital issues critic, is preparing to
| enter a private member's bill next week
| proposing the country's private copying
| levy should be extended to MP3 players.
|
| The levy is currently in place on other
| blank media, but attempts to extend it to
| MP3 players have failed in the past. The
| discussion of the levy came at the same
| time Canadian music industry insiders at
| Canadian Music Week were focused on the
| possibility of a new Copyright Act for
| Canada, after support for intellectual
| property was referenced in the Conservative
| government's throne speech last week.
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http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8c42c2e07eaa0e3298a09416e191bab9
Want To Link To Royal Mail? You Better Not Be In A Hurry
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| If you ever read terms of use pages for
| websites, you know that they are mostly
| boilerplate. Unfortunately whatever
| template all these businesses seem to be
| sharing makes some ridiculous assertions,
| perhaps the worst of which is a provision
| against hyperlinking to the site without
| written permission.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100309/0741468478.shtml
Postal service chief: Our business model as outdated as the newspaper industry's
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| The head of the U.S. Postal Service said
| Thursday that his organization's business
| model is as outdated as the newspaper
| industry's.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/86265-postal-service-chief-our-business-model-as-outdated-as-the-newspaper-industrys
Jaron Lanier Says That Musicians Using Free To Succeed Are Lying
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| What a bizarre statement, considering just
| how many real life examples we see every
| day of musicians successfully embracing an
| understanding of basic economics (which
| Lanier apparently lacks). I was trying to
| better understand how Lanier could make
| such an easily debunked statement with a
| straight face, and it's not clear at all.
| It appears that Lanier is the one who is
| pretending here.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0243548557.shtml
In Defense Of 1,000 True Fans - Part VII - Ellis Paul - 300 Fans = $100,000 in Contributions The Ultimate Testament to Fan Loyalty
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| Ellis Paul is an American singer-songwriter
| and folk musician. To date, he has released
| 16 albums and has been the recipient of 14
| Boston Music Awards. He has published a
| book of original lyrics, poems, and
| drawings, and released a DVD that includes
| a live performance, guitar instruction, and
| a road-trip documentary. As a touring
| musician, Ellis plays close to 150 dates
| each year and his extensive club and
| coffeehouse touring, together with radio
| airplay, has brought him a solid national
| following.
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http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/in-defense-of-1000-true-fans-part-vii-ellis-paul-300-fans-10.html
Heroes Producer: Honored To Be The Most Unauthorized Downloaded Show
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| This talk was given by Tim Kring, creator
| of the popular TV show Heroes, and he made
| some interesting points -- noting that he's
| "honored" that Heroes is the most
| "illegally" downloaded TV show out there,
| because "we'll take audience anywhere we
| can get it." But he's not just sitting
| back.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100316/0140078576.shtml
Dan Bull Recaps How Home Taping Killed Music With His Latest Song
http://techdirt.com/articles/20100315/1001348566.shtml
Linking to P2P content declared legal in Spain
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| This is an important and interesting
| ruling. I tend to agree with the linking
| part of the reasoning, but I completely
| disagree with the argument presented by the
| judge with regards to P2P networks. The
| judge uses some paper-thin arguments here
| to imply that P2P networks are not illegal,
| that they are here to stay anyway so what
| is the problem, and that almost nothing
| taking place in those networks can be
| enforced. I would be surprised if SGAE does
| not appeal the ruling.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/linking-to-p2p-content-declared-legal-in-spain
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
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| After early calls to shut down a Spanish
| file-sharing site were dismissed, music
| group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at
| the full trial. But, the outcome for them
| was nothing short of a disaster. The judge
| declared that both non-commercial file-
| sharing link sites and non-profit use of
| P2P networks are legal in Spain.
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http://torrentfreak.com/file-sharing-and-link-sites-declared-legal-in-spain-100315/
Vive Le Rapidshare â Is A New French Revolution Afoot?
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| Now half a year old, a study from the
| University of Rennes researched 2,000 users
| in Brittany about their downloading habits
| before and after Hadopiâs launch. The
| report found that P2P service use fell from
| 17.1 percent to 14.6 percent, but the
| piracy level in general actually went up 3
| percent.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-vive-le-rapidshare-is-a-new-french-revolution-afoot/
Music fans will sidestep filesharing clampdown says TalkTalk
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| The majority of music fans will switch to
| alternative ways of accessing copyright-
| protected content for free if using peer-
| to-peer (P2P) services leaves them
| vulnerable to disconnection, rendering
| futile the Governmentâs attempts to stop
| copyright infringement.
| Thatâs according to new research from
| TalkTalk, the biggest provider of broadband
| to Britainâs homes.
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http://pressoffice.talktalk.co.uk/news/item/music_fans_will_sidestep_filesharing_clampdown_says_talktalk/
Spotifies Mean Online Now Filling UKâs CD Royalty Gap
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| One part of the music business has finally
| reached the fabled tipping point at which
| digital income offsets declining physical
| sales.
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http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-spotifies-mean-online-now-filling-uks-cd-royalty-gap/
Two solicitors accused over file-sharing âbully tacticsâ
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| The Solicitors Regulation Authority has
| referred two solicitors from London firm
| Davenport Lyons to the Solicitors
| Disciplinary Tribunal over claims that the
| firm sent âbullyingâ letters accusing
| hundreds of people of illegal file-sharing.
|
| Consumer group Which? complained to the SRA
| in 2008 that Davenport Lyons partner David
| Gore and former partner Brian Miller had
| engaged in âbullyingâ and âexcessiveâ
| conduct, while acting on behalf of client
| copyright holders.
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http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/two-solicitors-accused-over-file-sharing-bully-tactics
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